*Population Reference Bureau, 1995 World Population Data Sheet, News Release, May 23, 1995
*U.S. Bureau of the Census figures for 1994. They do not include net immigration which is estimated to add at least 800,000 each year (legally) to the U.S. population.
"Washington, DC -- If the population of any animal on earth was growing as fast as the human
population, it would be seen as a catastrophe. Imagine what additional billions of horses or
pigeons or snakes would do to our environment. Yet we humans continue to add a
hundred million of our kind to the planet each year at a time when there are nearly 6 billion of
us already. In the next decade, the population of the earth will grow by 900 million--that's the
equivalent of adding another China!"
